Federal Register / Vol. 70, No.
226 / Friday, November 25, 2005 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Departmental Offices; Privacy Act of
1974; System of Records
AGENCY: Office of the Treasury Inspector
General for Tax Administration,
Treasury.
ACTION: Notice of alteration of Privacy
Act system of records.
SUMMARY: The Department of the
Treasury, Office of the Treasury
Inspector General for Tax
Administration (TIGTA), gives notice of
a proposed alteration to the system of
records entitled ‘‘Treasury/DO .311–
TIGTA Office of Investigations Files,’’
which is subject to the Privacy Act of
1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. 552a). The
system was last published in its entirety
in the Federal Register on May 22,
2003, at 68 FR 28046.
DATES: Comments must be received no
later than December 27, 2005. The
proposed routine use will be effective
January 4, 2006, unless the Department
receives comments that would result in
a contrary determination.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to
Elissa Sissman, Assistant Chief Counsel,
Office of the Treasury Inspector General
for Tax Administration, 1125 15th
Street, NW., Room 700A, Washington,
DC 20005, 202–622–4068. Comments
will be made available for inspection
upon written request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elissa Sissman, Assistant Chief Counsel,
Office of the Treasury Inspector General
for Tax Administration, 1125 15th
Street, NW., Room 700A, Washington,
DC 20005, 202–622–4068.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Treasury Inspector General for Tax
Administration (TIGTA) was established
pursuant to the Internal Revenue
Service Restructuring and Reform Act of
1998. TIGTA’s duties and operating
authority are set forth in the Inspector
General Act of 1978, 5 U.S.C app. 3.
TIGTA exercises all duties and
responsibilities of an Inspector General
with respect to the Department and the
Secretary on all matters relating to the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS). TIGTA
conducts, supervises, and coordinates
audits and investigations relating to the
programs and operations of the IRS and
related entities.
An integral part of TIGTA’s mission is
to detect fraud, waste, abuse, and
instances of compromised employee
integrity, including criminal
misconduct. Mission success depends
in large part on the willingness of the
public and Internal Revenue Service
employees to report suspected improper
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or potentially criminal conduct. New
routine use (12) will permit TIGTA
officials to apprise complainants and/or
victims, or their representatives, of the
status or results of the investigation or
case arising from the matters of which
they complained or were the victim,
and, once a subject had exhausted all
reasonable appeals, any action taken.
This new routine use is consistent
with the purposes for which the
information is collected in this system.
Like other executive branch
components, TIGTA has responsibilities
to protect individuals’ privacy.
Providing upon request the limited
information proposed here maintains an
appropriate balance between the right to
privacy of the individual being
investigated and the interests of the
public and complainant/victim in
ensuring that TIGTA appropriately
handled the allegations made.
The report of an altered system of
records, as required by 5 U.S.C. 552a(r)
of the Privacy Act, has been submitted
to the Committee on Government
Reform of the House of Representatives,
the Committee on Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate,
and the Office of Management and
Budget, pursuant to Appendix I to OMB
Circular A–130, ‘‘Federal Agency
Responsibilities for Maintaining
Records About Individuals,’’ dated
November 30, 2000.
TIGTA proposes to alter system of
records Treasury/DO .311–TIGTA Office
of Investigations Files, as follows:
Treasury/DO .311
SYSTEM NAME:
TIGTA Office of Investigations Files.
* * * * * 12.’’
ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE
SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND
PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:
* * * * *
Description of change: The period ‘‘.’’
at the end of routine use (11) is replaced
with a semicolon ‘‘;’’, and the following
routine use is added at the end thereof:
‘‘(12) Disclose information to
complainants, victims, or their
representatives (defined for purposes here to
be a complainant’s or victim’s legal counsel
or a Senator or Representative whose
assistance the complainant or victim has
solicited) concerning the status and/or results
of the investigation or case arising from the
matters of which they complained and/or of
which they were a victim, including, once
the investigative subject has exhausted all
reasonable appeals, any action taken.
Information concerning the status of the
investigation or case is limited strictly to
whether the investigation or case is open or
closed. Information concerning the results of
the investigation or case is limited strictly to
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whether the allegations made in the
complaint were substantiated or were not
substantiated and, if the subject has
exhausted all reasonable appeals, any action
taken.’’
* * * * *
Dated: November 16, 2005.
Sandra L. Pack,
Assistant Secretary for Management and
Chief Financial Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Extension of
Information Collection; Comment
Request
AGENCY: Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency (OCC), Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for comment.
SUMMARY: The OCC, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on a continuing information
collection, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. An agency may
not conduct or sponsor, and a
respondent is not required to respond
to, an information collection unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. The OCC is soliciting comment
concerning its information collection
titled, ‘‘Recordkeeping Requirements for
Securities Transactions—12 CFR part
DATES: You should submit comments by
January 24, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Communications Division,
Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency, Public Information Room,
Mailstop 1–5, Attention: 1557–0142,
250 E Street, SW., Washington, DC
20219. In addition, comments may be
sent by fax to (202) 874–4448, or by
electronic mail to
regs.comments@occ.treas.gov. You can
inspect and photocopy the comments at
the OCC’s Public Information Room, 250
E Street, SW., Washington, DC 20219.
You can make an appointment to
inspect the comments by calling (202)
874–5043.
Additionally, you should send a copy
of your comments to OCC Desk Officer,
1557–0142, by mail to U.S. Office of
Management and Budget, 725 17th
Street, NW., #10235, Washington, DC
20503, or by fax to (202) 395–6974.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You
can request additional information or a
copy of the collection from Mary
Gottlieb, OCC Clearance Officer, or
Camille Dixon, (202) 874–5090,
Legislative and Regulatory Activities
Division, Office of the Comptroller of
the Currency, 250 E Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20219.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The OCC
is proposing to extend OMB approval of
the following information collection:
Title: Recordkeeping Requirements
for Securities Transactions—12 CFR
part 12.
OMB Number: 1557–0142.
Description: This submission covers
an existing regulation and involves no
change to the regulation or to the
information collection requirements.
The only revisions to the submission are
the revised estimates, which have been
updated for accuracy.
The information collection
requirements in 12 CFR part 12 are
required to ensure national bank
compliance with securities laws and to
improve the protection afforded persons
who purchase and sell securities
through banks. The transaction
confirmation information provides
customers with a record regarding the
transaction and provides banks and the
OCC with records to ensure compliance
with banking and securities laws and
regulations. The OCC uses the required
information in its examinations to,
among other things, evaluate a bank’s
compliance with the antifraud
provisions of the Federal securities
laws.
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The information collection
requirements contained in 12 CFR part
12 are as follows:
Section 12.3 requires a national bank
effecting securities transactions for
customers to maintain records for at
least three years. The records required
by this section must clearly and
accurately reflect the information
required and provide an adequate basis
for the audit of the information.
Section 12.4 requires a national bank
to give or send to the customer a written
notification of transaction or a copy of
the registered broker/dealer
confirmation relating to the securities
transaction.
Sections 12.5(a), (b), (c), and (e)
require a national bank, as an alternative
to complying with § 12.4, to provide
notification to customers of trust
transactions, agency transactions, and
periodic plan transactions.
Sections 12.7(a)(1) through (a)(3)
require a national bank to develop and
maintain written securities trading
policies and procedures.
Section 12.7(a)(4) requires bank
officers and employees to report to the
bank all personal transactions in
securities made by them or on their
behalf in which they have a beneficial
interest.
Section 12.8 requires a national bank
to file a written request with the OCC
for a waiver of one or more of the
requirements set forth in §§ 12.2
through 12.7.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Individuals;
Businesses or other for-profit.
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Estimated Number of Respondents:
585.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
2,369.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
3,207 hours.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the request for OMB
approval. All comments will become a
matter of public record. Comments are
invited on:
(a) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information has practical utility;
(b) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the collection
of information;
(c) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected;
(d) Ways to minimize the burden of
the collection on respondents, including
through the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology; and
(e) Estimates of capital or startup costs
and costs of operation, maintenance,
and purchase of services to provide
information.
Dated: November 17, 2005.
Stuart Feldstein,
Assistant Director, Legislative and Regulatory
Activities Division.
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